--- title: Archerfish shoot jets of water to knock insects into the water, and… — Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, arc… · tree and pragmatics description: Archerfish shoot jets of water to knock insects into the water, and they aim correctly even though water bends light and makes things look in a different place. Who acts: Archerfish, mangroves, water, things. A sentence of the lesson «Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudski…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers/) / 7 # Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers, sentence 7 Archerfish shoot jets of water to knock insects into the water, and they aim correctly even though water bends light and makes things look in a different place. **Who acts:** Archerfish, mangroves, water, things · **What happens:** shoot, knock, aim, bend, make, look · **To what, where:** jets, insects, water, things This is a sentence of the lesson «Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Archerfish, mangroves, water, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.lesson:7 # text = Archerfish shoot jets of water to knock insects into the water, and they aim correctly even though water bends light and makes things look in a different place. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Archerfish archerfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 shoot shoot VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 jets jet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 knock knock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:acl 8 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 aim aim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 correctly correctly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 even even ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 though though SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 21 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 24 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shoot** | present | Archerfish | jets of water | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jet=Theme | | 2 | **knock** | to-infinitive | Archerfish *not said here* | insects | | the water | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent insect=Theme into water=Destination | | 3 | **aim** | present | mangroves *= mangrove* | | | | | correctly *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **bend** | present | water | | | | | light *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | present | water *not said here* | things | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **look** | infinitive | things *not said here* | | | | | in a different place | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in place=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.lesson:7`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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